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<title>x86/unwind: Rename unwinder config options to 'CONFIG_UNWINDER_*'</title>
<updated>2017-12-25T13:26:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-13T20:02:00+00:00</published>
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commit 11af847446ed0d131cf24d16a7ef3d5ea7a49554 upstream.

Rename the unwinder config options from:

  CONFIG_ORC_UNWINDER
  CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER_UNWINDER
  CONFIG_GUESS_UNWINDER

to:

  CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC
  CONFIG_UNWINDER_FRAME_POINTER
  CONFIG_UNWINDER_GUESS

... in order to give them a more logical config namespace.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/73972fc7e2762e91912c6b9584582703d6f1b8cc.1507924831.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 11af847446ed0d131cf24d16a7ef3d5ea7a49554 upstream.

Rename the unwinder config options from:

  CONFIG_ORC_UNWINDER
  CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER_UNWINDER
  CONFIG_GUESS_UNWINDER

to:

  CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC
  CONFIG_UNWINDER_FRAME_POINTER
  CONFIG_UNWINDER_GUESS

... in order to give them a more logical config namespace.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/73972fc7e2762e91912c6b9584582703d6f1b8cc.1507924831.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>locking/refcounts, x86/asm: Use unique .text section for refcount exceptions</title>
<updated>2017-12-10T12:40:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-02T20:09:45+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 564c9cc84e2adf8a6671c1937f0a9fe3da2a4b0e ]

Using .text.unlikely for refcount exceptions isn't safe because gcc may
move entire functions into .text.unlikely (e.g. in6_dev_dev()), which
would cause any uses of a protected refcount_t function to stay inline
with the function, triggering the protection unconditionally:

        .section        .text.unlikely,"ax",@progbits
        .type   in6_dev_get, @function
in6_dev_getx:
.LFB4673:
        .loc 2 4128 0
        .cfi_startproc
...
        lock; incl 480(%rbx)
        js 111f
        .pushsection .text.unlikely
111:    lea 480(%rbx), %rcx
112:    .byte 0x0f, 0xff
.popsection
113:

This creates a unique .text..refcount section and adds an additional
test to the exception handler to WARN in the case of having none of OF,
SF, nor ZF set so we can see things like this more easily in the future.

The double dot for the section name keeps it out of the TEXT_MAIN macro
namespace, to avoid collisions and so it can be put at the end with
text.unlikely to keep the cold code together.

See commit:

  cb87481ee89db ("kbuild: linker script do not match C names unless LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION is configured")

... which matches C names: [a-zA-Z0-9_] but not ".".

Reported-by: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Elena &lt;elena.reshetova@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-arch &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 7a46ec0e2f48 ("locking/refcounts, x86/asm: Implement fast refcount overflow protection")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1504382986-49301-2-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 564c9cc84e2adf8a6671c1937f0a9fe3da2a4b0e ]

Using .text.unlikely for refcount exceptions isn't safe because gcc may
move entire functions into .text.unlikely (e.g. in6_dev_dev()), which
would cause any uses of a protected refcount_t function to stay inline
with the function, triggering the protection unconditionally:

        .section        .text.unlikely,"ax",@progbits
        .type   in6_dev_get, @function
in6_dev_getx:
.LFB4673:
        .loc 2 4128 0
        .cfi_startproc
...
        lock; incl 480(%rbx)
        js 111f
        .pushsection .text.unlikely
111:    lea 480(%rbx), %rcx
112:    .byte 0x0f, 0xff
.popsection
113:

This creates a unique .text..refcount section and adds an additional
test to the exception handler to WARN in the case of having none of OF,
SF, nor ZF set so we can see things like this more easily in the future.

The double dot for the section name keeps it out of the TEXT_MAIN macro
namespace, to avoid collisions and so it can be put at the end with
text.unlikely to keep the cold code together.

See commit:

  cb87481ee89db ("kbuild: linker script do not match C names unless LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION is configured")

... which matches C names: [a-zA-Z0-9_] but not ".".

Reported-by: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Elena &lt;elena.reshetova@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-arch &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 7a46ec0e2f48 ("locking/refcounts, x86/asm: Implement fast refcount overflow protection")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1504382986-49301-2-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: fix device-dax pud write-faults triggered by get_user_pages()</title>
<updated>2017-12-05T10:26:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-30T00:10:06+00:00</published>
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commit 1501899a898dfb5477c55534bdfd734c046da06d upstream.

Currently only get_user_pages_fast() can safely handle the writable gup
case due to its use of pud_access_permitted() to check whether the pud
entry is writable.  In the gup slow path pud_write() is used instead of
pud_access_permitted() and to date it has been unimplemented, just calls
BUG_ON().

    kernel BUG at ./include/linux/hugetlb.h:244!
    [..]
    RIP: 0010:follow_devmap_pud+0x482/0x490
    [..]
    Call Trace:
     follow_page_mask+0x28c/0x6e0
     __get_user_pages+0xe4/0x6c0
     get_user_pages_unlocked+0x130/0x1b0
     get_user_pages_fast+0x89/0xb0
     iov_iter_get_pages_alloc+0x114/0x4a0
     nfs_direct_read_schedule_iovec+0xd2/0x350
     ? nfs_start_io_direct+0x63/0x70
     nfs_file_direct_read+0x1e0/0x250
     nfs_file_read+0x90/0xc0

For now this just implements a simple check for the _PAGE_RW bit similar
to pmd_write.  However, this implies that the gup-slow-path check is
missing the extra checks that the gup-fast-path performs with
pud_access_permitted.  Later patches will align all checks to use the
'access_permitted' helper if the architecture provides it.

Note that the generic 'access_permitted' helper fallback is the simple
_PAGE_RW check on architectures that do not define the
'access_permitted' helper(s).

[dan.j.williams@intel.com: fix powerpc compile error]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/151129126165.37405.16031785266675461397.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/151043109938.2842.14834662818213616199.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Fixes: a00cc7d9dd93 ("mm, x86: add support for PUD-sized transparent hugepages")
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;	[x86]
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 1501899a898dfb5477c55534bdfd734c046da06d upstream.

Currently only get_user_pages_fast() can safely handle the writable gup
case due to its use of pud_access_permitted() to check whether the pud
entry is writable.  In the gup slow path pud_write() is used instead of
pud_access_permitted() and to date it has been unimplemented, just calls
BUG_ON().

    kernel BUG at ./include/linux/hugetlb.h:244!
    [..]
    RIP: 0010:follow_devmap_pud+0x482/0x490
    [..]
    Call Trace:
     follow_page_mask+0x28c/0x6e0
     __get_user_pages+0xe4/0x6c0
     get_user_pages_unlocked+0x130/0x1b0
     get_user_pages_fast+0x89/0xb0
     iov_iter_get_pages_alloc+0x114/0x4a0
     nfs_direct_read_schedule_iovec+0xd2/0x350
     ? nfs_start_io_direct+0x63/0x70
     nfs_file_direct_read+0x1e0/0x250
     nfs_file_read+0x90/0xc0

For now this just implements a simple check for the _PAGE_RW bit similar
to pmd_write.  However, this implies that the gup-slow-path check is
missing the extra checks that the gup-fast-path performs with
pud_access_permitted.  Later patches will align all checks to use the
'access_permitted' helper if the architecture provides it.

Note that the generic 'access_permitted' helper fallback is the simple
_PAGE_RW check on architectures that do not define the
'access_permitted' helper(s).

[dan.j.williams@intel.com: fix powerpc compile error]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/151129126165.37405.16031785266675461397.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/151043109938.2842.14834662818213616199.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Fixes: a00cc7d9dd93 ("mm, x86: add support for PUD-sized transparent hugepages")
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;	[x86]
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T14:07:57+00:00</published>
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Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode &amp; Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained &gt;5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if &lt;5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode &amp; Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained &gt;5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if &lt;5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>percpu: make this_cpu_generic_read() atomic w.r.t. interrupts</title>
<updated>2017-09-26T14:37:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-26T11:41:52+00:00</published>
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As raw_cpu_generic_read() is a plain read from a raw_cpu_ptr() address,
it's possible (albeit unlikely) that the compiler will split the access
across multiple instructions.

In this_cpu_generic_read() we disable preemption but not interrupts
before calling raw_cpu_generic_read(). Thus, an interrupt could be taken
in the middle of the split load instructions. If a this_cpu_write() or
RMW this_cpu_*() op is made to the same variable in the interrupt
handling path, this_cpu_read() will return a torn value.

For native word types, we can avoid tearing using READ_ONCE(), but this
won't work in all cases (e.g. 64-bit types on most 32-bit platforms).
This patch reworks this_cpu_generic_read() to use READ_ONCE() where
possible, otherwise falling back to disabling interrupts.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Pranith Kumar &lt;bobby.prani@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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As raw_cpu_generic_read() is a plain read from a raw_cpu_ptr() address,
it's possible (albeit unlikely) that the compiler will split the access
across multiple instructions.

In this_cpu_generic_read() we disable preemption but not interrupts
before calling raw_cpu_generic_read(). Thus, an interrupt could be taken
in the middle of the split load instructions. If a this_cpu_write() or
RMW this_cpu_*() op is made to the same variable in the interrupt
handling path, this_cpu_read() will return a torn value.

For native word types, we can avoid tearing using READ_ONCE(), but this
won't work in all cases (e.g. 64-bit types on most 32-bit platforms).
This patch reworks this_cpu_generic_read() to use READ_ONCE() where
possible, otherwise falling back to disabling interrupts.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Pranith Kumar &lt;bobby.prani@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2017-09-15T03:01:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-15T03:01:41+00:00</published>
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Pull misc leftovers from Al Viro.

* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  fix the __user misannotations in asm-generic get_user/put_user
  fput: Don't reinvent the wheel but use existing llist API
  namespace.c: Don't reinvent the wheel but use existing llist API
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Pull misc leftovers from Al Viro.

* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  fix the __user misannotations in asm-generic get_user/put_user
  fput: Don't reinvent the wheel but use existing llist API
  namespace.c: Don't reinvent the wheel but use existing llist API
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus-20170904' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd</title>
<updated>2017-09-09T21:48:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-09T21:48:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=a59e57da49f7c3f3de8cf4b7568a0c6c82f5b242'/>
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Pull MTD updates from Boris Brezillon:
 "General updates:
   - Constify pci_device_id in various drivers
   - Constify device_type
   - Remove pad control code from the Gemini driver
   - Use %pOF to print OF node full_name
   - Various fixes in the physmap_of driver
   - Remove unused vars in mtdswap
   - Check devm_kzalloc() return value in the spear_smi driver
   - Check clk_prepare_enable() return code in the st_spi_fsm driver
   - Create per MTD device debugfs enties

  NAND updates, from Boris Brezillon:
   - Fix memory leaks in the core
   - Remove unused NAND locking support
   - Rename nand.h into rawnand.h (preparing support for spi NANDs)
   - Use NAND_MAX_ID_LEN where appropriate
   - Fix support for 20nm Hynix chips
   - Fix support for Samsung and Hynix SLC NANDs
   - Various cleanup, improvements and fixes in the qcom driver
   - Fixes for bugs detected by various static code analysis tools
   - Fix mxc ooblayout definition
   - Add a new part_parsers to tmio and sharpsl platform data in order
     to define a custom list of partition parsers
   - Request the reset line in exclusive mode in the sunxi driver
   - Fix a build error in the orion-nand driver when compiled for ARMv4
   - Allow 64-bit mvebu platforms to select the PXA3XX driver

  SPI NOR updates, from Cyrille Pitchen and Marek Vasut:
   - add support to the JEDEC JESD216B specification (SFDP tables).
   - add support to the Intel Denverton SPI flash controller.
   - fix error recovery for Spansion/Cypress SPI NOR memories.
   - fix 4-byte address management for the Aspeed SPI controller.
   - add support to some Microchip SST26 memory parts
   - remove unneeded pinctrl header Write a message for tag:"

* tag 'for-linus-20170904' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd: (74 commits)
  mtd: nand: complain loudly when chip-&gt;bits_per_cell is not correctly initialized
  mtd: nand: make Samsung SLC NAND usable again
  mtd: nand: tmio: Register partitions using the parsers
  mfd: tmio: Add partition parsers platform data
  mtd: nand: sharpsl: Register partitions using the parsers
  mtd: nand: sharpsl: Add partition parsers platform data
  mtd: nand: qcom: Support for IPQ8074 QPIC NAND controller
  mtd: nand: qcom: support for IPQ4019 QPIC NAND controller
  dt-bindings: qcom_nandc: IPQ8074 QPIC NAND documentation
  dt-bindings: qcom_nandc: IPQ4019 QPIC NAND documentation
  dt-bindings: qcom_nandc: fix the ipq806x device tree example
  mtd: nand: qcom: support for different DEV_CMD register offsets
  mtd: nand: qcom: QPIC data descriptors handling
  mtd: nand: qcom: enable BAM or ADM mode
  mtd: nand: qcom: erased codeword detection configuration
  mtd: nand: qcom: support for read location registers
  mtd: nand: qcom: support for passing flags in DMA helper functions
  mtd: nand: qcom: add BAM DMA descriptor handling
  mtd: nand: qcom: allocate BAM transaction
  mtd: nand: qcom: DMA mapping support for register read buffer
  ...
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Pull MTD updates from Boris Brezillon:
 "General updates:
   - Constify pci_device_id in various drivers
   - Constify device_type
   - Remove pad control code from the Gemini driver
   - Use %pOF to print OF node full_name
   - Various fixes in the physmap_of driver
   - Remove unused vars in mtdswap
   - Check devm_kzalloc() return value in the spear_smi driver
   - Check clk_prepare_enable() return code in the st_spi_fsm driver
   - Create per MTD device debugfs enties

  NAND updates, from Boris Brezillon:
   - Fix memory leaks in the core
   - Remove unused NAND locking support
   - Rename nand.h into rawnand.h (preparing support for spi NANDs)
   - Use NAND_MAX_ID_LEN where appropriate
   - Fix support for 20nm Hynix chips
   - Fix support for Samsung and Hynix SLC NANDs
   - Various cleanup, improvements and fixes in the qcom driver
   - Fixes for bugs detected by various static code analysis tools
   - Fix mxc ooblayout definition
   - Add a new part_parsers to tmio and sharpsl platform data in order
     to define a custom list of partition parsers
   - Request the reset line in exclusive mode in the sunxi driver
   - Fix a build error in the orion-nand driver when compiled for ARMv4
   - Allow 64-bit mvebu platforms to select the PXA3XX driver

  SPI NOR updates, from Cyrille Pitchen and Marek Vasut:
   - add support to the JEDEC JESD216B specification (SFDP tables).
   - add support to the Intel Denverton SPI flash controller.
   - fix error recovery for Spansion/Cypress SPI NOR memories.
   - fix 4-byte address management for the Aspeed SPI controller.
   - add support to some Microchip SST26 memory parts
   - remove unneeded pinctrl header Write a message for tag:"

* tag 'for-linus-20170904' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd: (74 commits)
  mtd: nand: complain loudly when chip-&gt;bits_per_cell is not correctly initialized
  mtd: nand: make Samsung SLC NAND usable again
  mtd: nand: tmio: Register partitions using the parsers
  mfd: tmio: Add partition parsers platform data
  mtd: nand: sharpsl: Register partitions using the parsers
  mtd: nand: sharpsl: Add partition parsers platform data
  mtd: nand: qcom: Support for IPQ8074 QPIC NAND controller
  mtd: nand: qcom: support for IPQ4019 QPIC NAND controller
  dt-bindings: qcom_nandc: IPQ8074 QPIC NAND documentation
  dt-bindings: qcom_nandc: IPQ4019 QPIC NAND documentation
  dt-bindings: qcom_nandc: fix the ipq806x device tree example
  mtd: nand: qcom: support for different DEV_CMD register offsets
  mtd: nand: qcom: QPIC data descriptors handling
  mtd: nand: qcom: enable BAM or ADM mode
  mtd: nand: qcom: erased codeword detection configuration
  mtd: nand: qcom: support for read location registers
  mtd: nand: qcom: support for passing flags in DMA helper functions
  mtd: nand: qcom: add BAM DMA descriptor handling
  mtd: nand: qcom: allocate BAM transaction
  mtd: nand: qcom: DMA mapping support for register read buffer
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: soft-dirty: keep soft-dirty bits over thp migration</title>
<updated>2017-09-09T01:26:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Naoya Horiguchi</name>
<email>n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-08T23:11:04+00:00</published>
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Soft dirty bit is designed to keep tracked over page migration.  This
patch makes it work in the same manner for thp migration too.

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zi Yan &lt;zi.yan@cs.rutgers.edu&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Anshuman Khandual &lt;khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Nellans &lt;dnellans@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Soft dirty bit is designed to keep tracked over page migration.  This
patch makes it work in the same manner for thp migration too.

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zi Yan &lt;zi.yan@cs.rutgers.edu&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Anshuman Khandual &lt;khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Nellans &lt;dnellans@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: thp: check pmd migration entry in common path</title>
<updated>2017-09-09T01:26:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zi Yan</name>
<email>zi.yan@cs.rutgers.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-08T23:11:01+00:00</published>
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When THP migration is being used, memory management code needs to handle
pmd migration entries properly.  This patch uses !pmd_present() or
is_swap_pmd() (depending on whether pmd_none() needs separate code or
not) to check pmd migration entries at the places where a pmd entry is
present.

Since pmd-related code uses split_huge_page(), split_huge_pmd(),
pmd_trans_huge(), pmd_trans_unstable(), or
pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad(), this patch:

1. adds pmd migration entry split code in split_huge_pmd(),

2. takes care of pmd migration entries whenever pmd_trans_huge() is present,

3. makes pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad() pmd migration entry aware.

Since split_huge_page() uses split_huge_pmd() and pmd_trans_unstable()
is equivalent to pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad(), we do not change
them.

Until this commit, a pmd entry should be:
1. pointing to a pte page,
2. is_swap_pmd(),
3. pmd_trans_huge(),
4. pmd_devmap(), or
5. pmd_none().

Signed-off-by: Zi Yan &lt;zi.yan@cs.rutgers.edu&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Anshuman Khandual &lt;khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Nellans &lt;dnellans@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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When THP migration is being used, memory management code needs to handle
pmd migration entries properly.  This patch uses !pmd_present() or
is_swap_pmd() (depending on whether pmd_none() needs separate code or
not) to check pmd migration entries at the places where a pmd entry is
present.

Since pmd-related code uses split_huge_page(), split_huge_pmd(),
pmd_trans_huge(), pmd_trans_unstable(), or
pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad(), this patch:

1. adds pmd migration entry split code in split_huge_pmd(),

2. takes care of pmd migration entries whenever pmd_trans_huge() is present,

3. makes pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad() pmd migration entry aware.

Since split_huge_page() uses split_huge_pmd() and pmd_trans_unstable()
is equivalent to pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad(), we do not change
them.

Until this commit, a pmd entry should be:
1. pointing to a pte page,
2. is_swap_pmd(),
3. pmd_trans_huge(),
4. pmd_devmap(), or
5. pmd_none().

Signed-off-by: Zi Yan &lt;zi.yan@cs.rutgers.edu&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Anshuman Khandual &lt;khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Nellans &lt;dnellans@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2017-09-04T19:21:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-04T19:21:28+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 mm changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "PCID support, 5-level paging support, Secure Memory Encryption support

  The main changes in this cycle are support for three new, complex
  hardware features of x86 CPUs:

   - Add 5-level paging support, which is a new hardware feature on
     upcoming Intel CPUs allowing up to 128 PB of virtual address space
     and 4 PB of physical RAM space - a 512-fold increase over the old
     limits. (Supercomputers of the future forecasting hurricanes on an
     ever warming planet can certainly make good use of more RAM.)

     Many of the necessary changes went upstream in previous cycles,
     v4.14 is the first kernel that can enable 5-level paging.

     This feature is activated via CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y - disabled by
     default.

     (By Kirill A. Shutemov)

   - Add 'encrypted memory' support, which is a new hardware feature on
     upcoming AMD CPUs ('Secure Memory Encryption', SME) allowing system
     RAM to be encrypted and decrypted (mostly) transparently by the
     CPU, with a little help from the kernel to transition to/from
     encrypted RAM. Such RAM should be more secure against various
     attacks like RAM access via the memory bus and should make the
     radio signature of memory bus traffic harder to intercept (and
     decrypt) as well.

     This feature is activated via CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT=y - disabled
     by default.

     (By Tom Lendacky)

   - Enable PCID optimized TLB flushing on newer Intel CPUs: PCID is a
     hardware feature that attaches an address space tag to TLB entries
     and thus allows to skip TLB flushing in many cases, even if we
     switch mm's.

     (By Andy Lutomirski)

  All three of these features were in the works for a long time, and
  it's coincidence of the three independent development paths that they
  are all enabled in v4.14 at once"

* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (65 commits)
  x86/mm: Enable RCU based page table freeing (CONFIG_HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE=y)
  x86/mm: Use pr_cont() in dump_pagetable()
  x86/mm: Fix SME encryption stack ptr handling
  kvm/x86: Avoid clearing the C-bit in rsvd_bits()
  x86/CPU: Align CR3 defines
  x86/mm, mm/hwpoison: Clear PRESENT bit for kernel 1:1 mappings of poison pages
  acpi, x86/mm: Remove encryption mask from ACPI page protection type
  x86/mm, kexec: Fix memory corruption with SME on successive kexecs
  x86/mm/pkeys: Fix typo in Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt
  x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Speed up page tables dump for CONFIG_KASAN=y
  x86/mm: Implement PCID based optimization: try to preserve old TLB entries using PCID
  x86: Enable 5-level paging support via CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y
  x86/mm: Allow userspace have mappings above 47-bit
  x86/mm: Prepare to expose larger address space to userspace
  x86/mpx: Do not allow MPX if we have mappings above 47-bit
  x86/mm: Rename tasksize_32bit/64bit to task_size_32bit/64bit()
  x86/xen: Redefine XEN_ELFNOTE_INIT_P2M using PUD_SIZE * PTRS_PER_PUD
  x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Fix printout of p4d level
  x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Generalize address normalization
  x86/boot: Fix memremap() related build failure
  ...
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Pull x86 mm changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "PCID support, 5-level paging support, Secure Memory Encryption support

  The main changes in this cycle are support for three new, complex
  hardware features of x86 CPUs:

   - Add 5-level paging support, which is a new hardware feature on
     upcoming Intel CPUs allowing up to 128 PB of virtual address space
     and 4 PB of physical RAM space - a 512-fold increase over the old
     limits. (Supercomputers of the future forecasting hurricanes on an
     ever warming planet can certainly make good use of more RAM.)

     Many of the necessary changes went upstream in previous cycles,
     v4.14 is the first kernel that can enable 5-level paging.

     This feature is activated via CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y - disabled by
     default.

     (By Kirill A. Shutemov)

   - Add 'encrypted memory' support, which is a new hardware feature on
     upcoming AMD CPUs ('Secure Memory Encryption', SME) allowing system
     RAM to be encrypted and decrypted (mostly) transparently by the
     CPU, with a little help from the kernel to transition to/from
     encrypted RAM. Such RAM should be more secure against various
     attacks like RAM access via the memory bus and should make the
     radio signature of memory bus traffic harder to intercept (and
     decrypt) as well.

     This feature is activated via CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT=y - disabled
     by default.

     (By Tom Lendacky)

   - Enable PCID optimized TLB flushing on newer Intel CPUs: PCID is a
     hardware feature that attaches an address space tag to TLB entries
     and thus allows to skip TLB flushing in many cases, even if we
     switch mm's.

     (By Andy Lutomirski)

  All three of these features were in the works for a long time, and
  it's coincidence of the three independent development paths that they
  are all enabled in v4.14 at once"

* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (65 commits)
  x86/mm: Enable RCU based page table freeing (CONFIG_HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE=y)
  x86/mm: Use pr_cont() in dump_pagetable()
  x86/mm: Fix SME encryption stack ptr handling
  kvm/x86: Avoid clearing the C-bit in rsvd_bits()
  x86/CPU: Align CR3 defines
  x86/mm, mm/hwpoison: Clear PRESENT bit for kernel 1:1 mappings of poison pages
  acpi, x86/mm: Remove encryption mask from ACPI page protection type
  x86/mm, kexec: Fix memory corruption with SME on successive kexecs
  x86/mm/pkeys: Fix typo in Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt
  x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Speed up page tables dump for CONFIG_KASAN=y
  x86/mm: Implement PCID based optimization: try to preserve old TLB entries using PCID
  x86: Enable 5-level paging support via CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y
  x86/mm: Allow userspace have mappings above 47-bit
  x86/mm: Prepare to expose larger address space to userspace
  x86/mpx: Do not allow MPX if we have mappings above 47-bit
  x86/mm: Rename tasksize_32bit/64bit to task_size_32bit/64bit()
  x86/xen: Redefine XEN_ELFNOTE_INIT_P2M using PUD_SIZE * PTRS_PER_PUD
  x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Fix printout of p4d level
  x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Generalize address normalization
  x86/boot: Fix memremap() related build failure
  ...
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